Hal James (I) (Would have been 100) 1912 - Died age 58 (born 12/12/12) Born December 12, 1912 in ?, New York, USA. Died August 2, 1971 in Westport, Connecticut, USA (stroke). Won three Tony Awards: in 1966, as co-producer of Best Musical winner "Man of la Mancha;" and two in 1968, as one of four co-producers for Best Producer (Musical) and as a co-producer of Best Musical winner "Hallelujah, Baby!" Baltimore Bob added Hal on Saturday June 12th 2010
The union organizers will try to make unionization sound like a no lose proposition. They promise improvements in pay and benefits with statements such as “the union would never agree to pay and benefit cuts so you can’t lose”.
The fact is bargaining is a game of GIVE and take. By law, unions cannot collect dues until they have a contract in place so it is common for unions to agree to concessions just to get the first contract and start taking money from your paycheck.
The first two items that unions negotiate for are closed shop and dues checkoff. Closed shop means you have to belong to the union in order to work at the company and dues checkoff is automatic payroll deduction of your dues, fines and assessments. Smart companies know that the union will not give up these two items so they force the union to give up something in exchange for closed shop and dues checkoff.
Once a union wins an election their first order of business is to lower the expectations of the employees. Often the union organizers have spent years making promises knowing that they can never be fulfilled. Now they must prepare the employees for reality.
Bargaining is a two way street. Some contract provisions will benefit the union (this does not necessarily mean it will benefit the employees) and some will cost the employees.
In our Edition 1 Newsletter we have coupons that can be given to a union organizer so they can sign them and guarantee the employees will have better pay, benefits and working conditions. Note: you will never get a union organizer to sign the coupons.
· Lie #2 – Just Try It, You Can Vote the Union Out if You Don’t Like It
Many union organizers will try to overcome an employee’s objections by telling them they can vote out the union in a year.
The truth is once a union is voted in they are there until someone takes the initiative to decertify the union. In order to decertify the union employees would have to wait 3 years and then they would only have a 30 day window in which to gather signatures for decertification. Unions will use harassment and intimidation to thwart decertification activities.
Decertification efforts are further complicated by the fact that many union constitutions prohibit decertification activity. Violating the union’s constitution can result in the employee being kicked-out of the union and subsequently fired (remember it’s closed shop – you have to belong to the union or you can’t work for the company). We discussed this in our Edition 1 Newsletter.
· Lie #3 – You Are the Union
When a union wins an election, it only wins the right to speak for employees for the purpose of collective bargaining.
The union (both the Local and the International) can legally do whatever it wants regardless of what the employees want. The NLRB has almost always sided with the union on this sometimes contentious point.
Organizers will often claim that “you will have a seat at the table when decisions are made”. What they don’t tell you is that you will be instructed to save your comments for caucus meetings that are held away from the table. You will be told that this is necessary so the union can present a “united front”.
Even if you are allowed to speak at the table, only the Local or International can approve a contract with your company.
If the UAW has a “seat at the table”, why did they allow the Detroit 3 to deteriorate to the point that GM and Chrysler flirted with bankruptcy and Ford had to go deeply in debt to stay alive? Why did the UAW negotiate concessions? Since they had a “seat at the table” shouldn’t they have prevented the financial meltdown and thus avoided the concessions?
To further illustrate this point think about your representatives in Washington DC. You may have voted for them but what about the day to day decisions they make? Do they agree with you on every issue? This exemplifies the type of voice you have with a union.
· Lie #4 – Respect
Another common pitch that organizers use is “United we stand, divided we beg”.
What the organizers are doing is confusing fear and respect. They are saying that the company would fear the union and would treat the employees with more respect.
What the company actually fears is the unions restrictive work rules and ridiculous bargaining and grievance resolution process will make the company uncompetitive in today’s ultra-competitive global economy. Even with wage and benefit concessions, unionized companies tend to get pulverized during difficult economic times. Due to UAW induced inefficiencies, the Detroit 3 even got hammered during good economic times.
If the union really wanted the respect of the company they would try to help the company become more efficient and profitable.
· Lie #5 – The Company’s Resistance is Proof
The UAW is trying to trick you with this argument. Basically they try to put unions in the same category as alcohol and drugs. Since your parents told you not to use alcohol and drugs, they must be cool. A parents opposition is seen as validation.
The reality is sometimes parents are right – alcohol, drugs and unions can be bad for you. Those who oppose the UAW are looking out for your best interests.
As we mentioned before, companies don’t fear huge wage and benefit increases. Companies only have to pay what they agree to pay. As long as a company holds firm they can negotiate just about anything into the contract.
What the company fears is the loss of flexibility. Companies must have the ability to response quickly to changing market conditions.
The negotiating process is often very adversarial and can take months or years. During the negotiating process the company is legally obligated not to change anything. Non-union competitors are not saddled with this burden and therefore can make changes quickly as the market demands. Flexibility can be the difference between profit and bankruptcy. Just look at what has happened to GM and Chrysler.
Customers also know the inherent problems with unions. They may look for alternative suppliers during contract negotiations to avoid disruptions to their business.
Many studies have determined that the “dead-weight” of a union costs the company 20% of productivity and profitability. This is not due to wage and benefit costs. When you account for regional and industry differences, the gap between union and non-union pay is small or even non-existent.
· Lie #6 – Protection
Creating fear of being fired is another common UAW lie. They will use terms such as “at-will”, meaning that you can be fired at any moment without just cause. The organizers do this in order to convince employees that they need protection.
The fact is employers today are very reluctant to fire anyone. Given the current legal environment, companies only fire employees after a series of other disciplinary actions have failed. This protects the company from EEOC complaints and lawsuits.
So what about union employees? Are they “protected” for being fired? No!
They have a grievance procedure but they forfeit their right to speak for themselves or to process their own case. This means that their fate may be decided by politics, connections or the good-ole-boy system.
Each year unions face thousands of unfair labor practice charges for not fairly representing their members during the grievance process. You can view the unfair labor charges against the UAW at www.DOL.gov.
· Lie #7 – Union Employees Have it Better
When union organizers are asked to explain how they lost several million more members they always refer you to the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage rate information. They will show you that union workers make 30% more than non-union members across the US.
If this were true then people would be beating down the door of the union hall in order to sign a card. A wise man once said “there are lies, damn lies and statistics”.
In reality the BLS statistics are not very reliable because they do not account for regional differences. Union membership tends to be higher in large metropolitan areas. These are the same areas where the cost of living is higher and therefore wage rates tend to be higher in these areas.
Another problem with BLS statistics is they lump everyone together. The statistics compare unionized NFL players with non-union McDonald’s workers.
People are not stupid. There is a reason that unions are dying and workers can see that unions do not bring about the positives they claim they will.
The bottom line is that having a union adds more bureaucracy, politics, costs and rules to your work environment. Unions also hurt the competitiveness of companies and make them less nimble to changing market conditions. All these factors make the company less profitable and put downward pressure on pay, benefits and employment levels.
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Neurotheology, Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Deja Vu, Death, God, Sex, Love, and more.
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How understanding the Brain helps us understand Life after Death, Visions of God, Romantic Love, Enlightenment, Deja Vu, and even Out Of Body Experiences.
My name is Todd Murphy, and I'm a Behavioral Neuroscientist associated with Dr. Michael Persinger. Most of my ideas and publications are based on his work, although my emphasis is on the spiritual aspects of neuroscience, and like all researchers, I see things through my own eyes. That means I take a scientific approach, not a clinical one. (I am solely responsible for the contents of this website.)
My main interest is in understanding how the brain contributes to mystic, religious, and spiritual experiences. I want to use this understanding to find ways to induce them for those who need them. And to understand the transformations that follow when people have them unexpectedly. Unlike many of my colleagues, I am not closed to psychic phenomena, tales of miracles, visitations by angels, and other experiences. I accept that these are real experiences, even though I may not be able to accept many of the traditional explanations for them.
Now, Persinger has discovered the same type of brain stimulation can create metal states conducive to human telepathy. “What we have found is that if you place two different people at a distance and put a circular magnetic field around both, and you make sure they are connected to the same computer so they get the same stimulation, then if you flash a light in one person’s eye the person in the other room receiving just the magnetic field will show changes in their brain as if they saw the flash of light. We think that’s tremendous because it may be the first macro demonstration of a quantum connection, or so-called quantum entanglement. If true, then there’s another way of potential communication that may have physical applications, for example, in space travel.”
While Persinger’s experiments could prove groundbreaking, he remains doubtful about his controversial findings reaching his colleagues, “I think the critical thing about science is to be open-minded. It’s really important to realize that the true subject matter of science is the pursuit of the unknown. Sadly scientists have become extraordinarily group-oriented. Our most typical critics are not are mystic believer types. They are scientists who have a narrow vision of what the world is like.”
December 12, 2012, or 12/12/12, is the last date for the next 88 years when every number will be the same. At 12:12 a.m. and p.m. there will be five repeats of the number, six if you care to watch the clock tick until it reaches 12 seconds.
It's also a special day for thousands of kids celebrating their twelfth birthday on Wednesday, including one who says he was born at 12:12 p.m.
Predictions abound for the day, and at least one astrologer in Australia is predicting a Y2K-style internet and computer breakdown, according to News.com.au.
"On 12.12.12 the world is feeling the impact of a stressful pattern between Mercury and Neptune, the planet that rules leaks (like Wikileaks) and also flooded computer networks," she is quoted as saying.
But wait, other sky-readers are saying the exact opposite. (More Here)
the new discovery which was revealed by scientific studies was that family quarrel is an obvious reason for weak immunity, and the implications of this quarrel are not only reflected on psychological comfort but they lead to fragile immunity in individuals who are suffering from it. This has been confirmed recently by experts from United States in studies and experiments they had done. (According to Germany News Agency) Their Homepage reported that:
A group of American experts have reached a conclusion that man immunity is negatively affected in case of the outbreak of family disputes. This is the result of a study conducted on 42 families that experienced martial disputes. Simultaneously, researchers supported that family quarrel and no accord between spouses lead mostly to family health deterioration. This applies especially to individuals who are suffering from disease symptoms. Some Swedish researchers validated that family disputes lead in most occasions to doubling heart attacks in those who are already suffering from heart diseases. Also, studies pointed that work stress does not lead to complications that family quarrel leads to.
Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser and her colleagues from the Internal Surgery & Psychology Division in Columbus University, Ohio carried tests on wounds healing in spouses who are experiencing family disputes. In this regard, physicians put measuring devices under the armpit of the study participant. A nurse took blood samples before the wound and after. Experts were asking subjects certain questions, besides, conducting certain psychological tests. In addition, they asked the spouses to discuss certain topics. Results of these tests showed how the spouses dealt with each other, besides, evaluating marital relation based on these results. The results showed that more than one third of the spouses who were subjected to tests lived in a hostility environment. In addition, these subjects expressed their anger by uttering profanity during discussion of certain topics and made movements unusual in the daily life of spouses accompanied with weird charges. Subjects did not listen to each other during quarrels. The study verified that wound healing period in spouses who quarrel is more than in spouses who lead a happy and joyful life.
Study Results:
"And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves" ....
It was in Allah's Book before fourteen centuries Almighty's saying, "And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts) : verily in that are Signs for those who reflect. " [Ar-Rum: The Roman: 21] It is a great verse that we discover its secrets day after a day. One who considers this verse, realizes the importance of sympathetic, mercy and love between spouses, and also discovers that Allah has given us a way for success, healing and happiness in our marital life, that is we take the way of love and mercy. But, unfortunately, we deviated greatly from that course, and thus problems stemmed, especially the divorce phenomenon which spread like fire in hay. There are domestic violence, family disintegration and millions of husbands who do not enjoy happiness with their wives, why?
The answer is included in the above verse, and Allah summarized it into two words: (love and mercy). As long as there are love, sympathetic and compassion between the spouses, life will be happy and quiet. By disappearance of these two "indicators" from the house, happiness vanishes and life becomes unbearable hell. We, as Muslims, Allah has blessed us with the grace of faith. We are glad that Allah Almighty advised us to take care of women and the Prophet (pbuh), Almighty says, "live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing , and Allah brings about through it a great deal of good. " [An-Nisa: The Women: 19] The Prophet says, "Urge you to treat women well"
My #1 Celebrity Birthday Person for December 12th is Frank Sinatra (Would have been 97) 1915 - Died age 82 Date of Birth 12 December 1915 - Hoboken, New Jersey. Date of Death 14 May 1998 - Los Angeles, California. (heart & kidney disease; bladder cancer; senility) Birth name: Francis Albert Sinatra / Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Nicknames: The Voice, Chairman of the Board (of Show Business), Ol' Blue Eyes & Swoonatra Growing up on the streets of Hoboken, New Jersey made him determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty, little dives (because he carried his own P.A. system), he eventually got work as a band singer, first with The Hoboken Four then Harry James, then Tommy Dorsey (Tommy born in Shenandoah,PA also birthplace of Baltimore Bob). With the help of George Evans (Sinatra's genius press agent), Sinatra'a image was shaped in to that of a street thug and punk who was saved by his first wife, Nancy. In 1942, he started his solo career, instantly finding fame as the king of the bobbysoxers -- the young women and girls who were his fans. Thought by many to be the finest American popular singer of our time. Spouses: 4. Barbara Marx (11 July 1976 - 14 May 1998) (his death) 3. Mia Farrow (19 July 1966 - 1968) (divorced) 2. Ava Gardner (7 November 1951 - 5 July 1957) (divorced) 1. Nancy Barbato (4 February 1939 - 1951) (divorced) 3 children Nancy (b. 1940), Frank (b.1944), Christina (b.1948) Some three decades late, the Hungarian-born actress Eva Bartok claimed that her daughter, Deana, born in 1957 during Bartok's marriage to the actor Curd Jürgens, was actually fathered by Sinatra, during a brief affair that he and Bartok had had following his breakup in 1956 with the sultry Ava Gardner. Sinatra never acknowledged paternity. 1st movie role at age 26 in ‘Las Vegas Nights (1941) (uncredited) as a Singer in Tommy Dorsey's Band. 1st credited role at age 28 in ‘Higher and Higher’ (1943) as Frank. No 1950 role: On the Town (1949) as Chip then Double Dynamite (1951) as Johnny Dalton. Inspired the Johnny Fontaine character in 'The Godfather' (1972). Last movie role at age 69 in ‘Cannonball Run II’ (1984) as Frank Sinatra. Member (leader) of the 'Rat Pack' which includes Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Baltimore Bob states “With Joey Bishop’s death in 2007 there are no more living members”. All appeared in "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) and "Sergeants 3" (1962). According to Mia Farrow's biography, 'What Falls Away', he offered to have Woody Allen's legs broken when he was found to be having an affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Baltimore Bob states "Woody Allen's current spouse Soon-Yi Previn (22 December 1997 - present) 2 children". Reportedly kept a picture of Ava Gardner on his mirror long after their break up. Former father-in-law of Tommy Sands. Nancy Sinatra and Tommy Sands were married from 11 September 1960 until divorce in 1965. A provision in his will is that if anyone contests it, they are automatically disinherited. Winner of special Academy Award for 'The House I Live In' (1945) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1971). In 1997, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement award. Interred at Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California in Palm Springs, California, USA. Specific Interment Location: B-8, #151. The epitaph on his headstone reads 'The Best is Yet to Come.' http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000069/
In an interview with Australia's TODAY, Ricky discusses new role on The Voice Australia and moving with his family Down Under Since he's ending his run in Broadway's Evita on January 26, Ricky Martin is now talking about his next role as a coach on The Voice Australia and what else lies ahead. "[Being a part of The Voice] is going to be a very beautiful first six months of the year," said the superstar who then talked about taking over Keith Urban's role. "I love what he's doing to music and has done over the years ... I am humble to be sitting in his chair."
He also talked about how fast his two twin boys have grown. "I don't know how it went from diapers to school uniforms, time flies!"
Gang man style dooms day prediction I have looked at any number of predictions, prophecy's regarding end time events, This one has to be one in the bizarre box, A prediction made by Nostradamus in 1555 now said to be linked to Psy Gang man Style ?
interesting North Korea has just launched a long range missile, i had a dream once war had broken loose , every where , it was so sudden and devastating, where i was no one knew how or where it had started, then we heard it was North Korea.
THE FREEDOM ROAD: In "Road to Freedom" David Icke gives a keynote lecture reveals many secrets where hidden by those who govern us and manipulate. Among other things, talks about the Freemasons and the Illuminati and its relationship with many of the U.S. Presidents.
En "Camino a la Libertad" David Icke nos ofrece una magistral conferencia donde desvela numerosos secretos ocultos por aquellos que nos gobiernan y manipulan. Entre otras cosas, nos habla sobre la masonería y los iluminatis y su relación con muchos de los presidentes de EE.UU.
Special music for relaxation, meditation and healing.
Special music for relaxation, meditation and healing. Are frequencies that affect the balance and harmony of the body, restoring energy patterns. Among other tunes are Ahu Saglam, Arnica Montana and music with dolphins and whales.
Música especial para relajarse, meditar y sanar. Son frecuencias que inciden en el equilibrio y la armonía del cuerpo, restableciendo los patrones energéticos. Entre otras, se encuentran melodías de Ahu Saglam, Arnica Montana y música con delfines y ballenas.
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